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<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial;">Re: your question the "sharpness" of the thermal transfer label media, in my opinion, it is. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Basically,
I consider ALL label paper potentially damaging to specimens so has always been the same: labels in first (including old/original labels) then fish specimens. For very delicate larval fishes, specimens are placed in a .25 dram /1 dram boroscilliate vial (without
label) then nested in a labeled 8 dram boroscilliate vial and filled with the fluid. Both vials are plugged with cotton.
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<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial;">With the 4X4" size (and stability) of the polyspun plastic paper (or Resistal labels before that) the label tends to stay in place (i.e.,
against the sides of the jar or vial) once the container is filled with specimens and alcohol. However, in large jars, not filled to capacity with specimens, the labels will tend to "move" around and can cause problems with fish appendages, fins, etc. </span>
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Your question re: teslin paper. I have had an "unscientific" experiment (since 2002) to see how Teslin stands up to ethanonl, formalin, and isopropanol. Also how well the Epson impact printer ink stays on Teslin paper labels. So far, this paper has held up
quite well. My test of teslin in liquid nitrogen, it did not hold up as well as the polyspun plastic paper or Tyvek. (Both of these papers we use--preprinted-- in the field for labeling fin clips or tissues.)</div>
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<div>Lex Snyder<br>
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<div><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:medium"><font color="#808080">Alexandra M Snyder,
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<div><font color="#808080"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">PH./FAX 505.277.6005 amsnyder@unm.edu</font></font></div>
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